Rebels rained rockets on the capital of Sudan's South Kordofan state today, official radio reported, a day after peace talks with the government broke off.
"SPLM-North shelled Kadugli with Katyusha (rockets)," Radio Omdurman said in a brief SMS dispatch citing the state's governor.
A resident of Kadugli told AFP several rockets hit the southern part of the town at about 1500 GMT.
"I saw one house ablaze," said the witness, who had no information about any casualties and asked not to be identified.
The attack came after African Union-mediated peace talks in Ethiopia adjourned yesterday having failed to make progress in halting the nearly three-year-old war in South Kordofan and Blue Nile.
The two sides did not meet face to face over several days of negotiations, -- the first in nearly a year -- and instead traded accusations.
Talks are supposed to resume later this month.
In Addis Ababa on Monday, the head of the rebel delegation, Yassir Arman, said Khartoum wants "to freeze this war without giving any solutions to the humanitarian situation and the political situation".
The government accused the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North of raising issues unrelated to the two war zones of South Kordofan and Blue Nile.
Rebel spokesman Arnu Ngutulu Lodi told AFP he had no information about an attack on Kadugli.
Artillery fire suspected or confirmed to be from rebels has previously hit the town in conjunction with key political events.
